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The Preacher’s Notebook: The Collected Quotes, Illustrations, and Prayers of John Stott is unavailable, but you can change that!

Like many pastors, the great British evangelical leader John Stott was always looking for illustrations and quotations to include in his sermons and writings. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until the early 2000s, when he came across something he thought he could use, he captured it on a note card, labeled it according to topic, and filed it away in his study. When he used it in a sermon or...

Stott’s sermons never sacrificed clarity for levity. In addition to the quotations and stories, which make up the bulk of this anthology, there are also a handful of outlines for talks, as well as a number of prayers that he wrote for specific occasions. Stott’s notes numbered in the thousands, and this anthology reproduces only around 20 percent of them. In selecting the entries, I have attempted to capture the breadth and depth of the full archive. Many have been omitted on the simple grounds of
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